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My dream job was a specialty retail store - not low effort or tons of money, but hopefully something that could grow into a lifestyle business. Imagine somethin
by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
My dream job was a specialty retail store - not low effort or tons of money, but hopefully something that could grow into a lifestyle business. Imagine something like a bicycle shop. Trust me when I say I have worked my ass off.
The only small businesses I know that are succeeding in my area are basically services - restaurants, cafes, etc. They rely on exploiting a bunch of underpaid workers in a way I wouldn't ever want to.
In your other comment it sounds like you're just kind of doing "handyman" stuff in a low CoL area. It's great if you can handle your own plumbing, electrical, etc. but there's definitely a ceiling on how much work you can get as a single, unlicensed person with a van driving around. Maybe that's enough to live on but it doesn't feel like a sustainable plan for 30 years.
- sigmoid10 1y agoYou seem to have confused the comments. I'm an employee living in one of the highest CoL areas in the world. But I know quite a few who run small businesses here and make use of that fact to the fullest extent. They can charge insane amounts of money for minimum quality work that wouldn't even put enough food on the table, let alone afford any luxury at home elsewhere. In the countryside I imagine you'd actually need to bring some talent or do quality work as well and not just make use of unsaturated business markets in overeducated areas.